Week 7 Blog Post Communicative Competence

[Tana Kuptanon]

• Reflect on your language learning so far and the relationship between understanding the target culture and the target language.  What do you need to improve your communicative competence?
• I think I understand the target culture and the target because of my interest in hebrew prior to this class. I think that learning the structure of a language and what makes of languages helps significantly alot in understanding a language. I am still not entirely sure how a culture might influence the learning of a language since for hebrew, religion culture is deeply immersed in the language as a religious factor, so I don't know how to compare that to a language without a non religious factor. 
• I need to improve my communicative competence by writing and using the language more through music, news, and talking with native. My plan is not to get rid of my accent because I speak three other languages and I know how difficult it is to get rid of accents while learning the language. My main goal is to communicative basic terms that will allow me to get around in Hebrew speaking communities such as Israel (and only Israel).